Mississippi
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Mississippi
This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Mississippi. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period through statehood to the present.
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Item type:Item, Amendments to the Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Jackson 16-17 (1882)(1882)Required the city assessor to prepare separate real and personal property assessment rolls, including separate columns listing and valuing pistols, dirks, bowie-knives, sword-canes, and other guns.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. III: Crimes and Misdemeanors, in Greenville Times, Dec. 31, 1881, at 2, § 6-8(1881)§ 6: That it shall be unlawful to fly kites, play ball, throw missiles, or discharge any fire-arms, or other explosives, (except fireworks on national holidays) or cause dogs to fight in the streets of the town, or do any act to injure property, public or private, or make any noise on t h streets likely to frighten horses or mules, or alarm or injure persons, or impede the free passage of vehicles or persons, or to discharge any fire-arms within the town, unless in self-defense or defense of his property, or while in the legal execution of some law or ordinance;Item type:Item, Ordinance no. 12, § 2, in Oxford Eagle, Jul. 7, 1898, at 2(1898)Prohibited brandishing deadly weapons in a rude, angry, or threatening manner.Item type:Item, Item type:Item, 1898 Miss. Laws 86(1898)Ch. 68: Amended 1896 Miss. Laws 109-10, ch. 104 to prohibit the conceal carry bowie knives, dirks, butcher knives, pistols, metal knuckles, slingshots, sword, or other deadly weapons of like kind. Violations deemed a misdemeanor and fined not less than twenty-five dollars but no more than one hundred dollars.Item type:Item, Ordinance no. 25, in Oxford Eagle, Jul. 7, 1898, at 2(1898)Any marshal or night-watchmen who fails or refuses to report, arrest, or bring to trial anyone who has violated any ordinance of the town shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined twenty-five dollars.Item type:Item, 1892 Miss. Laws 193-4, 198(1892)Ch. 74: Mandated tax assessors to have prepared rolls of taxable items, including guns(more than one), pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.Item type:Item, 1880 Miss. Rev. Code 776-77, §§ 2985-88(1880)Ch. 77, §§ 2986-88: It shall not be lawful for any person to sell to any minor or person intoxicated knowing him to a a minor or in a state of intoxication, any weapons of the kind or description in the foregoing section described, or any pistol cartridge and on conviction he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and if the fine and costs are not paid, be condemned to hard labor under the direction of the board of supervisors or of the court not exceeding six months. § 2987. Any father who shall knowingly suffer or permit any minor son under the age of sixteen years to carry concealed, in whole or in part, any person of the kind or description in the forgoing section described, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, and if the fine and costs are not paid, shall be condemned to hard labor as provided in the proceeding section. § 2988. Any student of any university, college, or school, who shall carry concealed, in whole or in part, any weapon of the kind or description in the foregoing section described, or any teacher, instructor or professor who shall knowingly, suffer or permit any such weapon to be carried by any student or pupil, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars, and if the fine and costs are not paid, be condemned to hard labor as above provided.Item type:Item, Miss. Code Ann. ch. 29, § 1030 (1892)(1892)§ 1030: Prohibited students in any university, college, or school from carrying, bringing, receiving, owning, having on campus, college, or school grounds, or within two miles thereof, any weapon of which concealed carry is prohibited. Also includes teachers, instructors, or professors from knowingly suffer or permit those weapons to be carried. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned not exceeding three months, or both.Item type:Item, Miss. Code Ann. ch. 29, § 1247 (1892)(1892)Ch. 29, § 1247: If any person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any toy pistol, or cartridges or caps, or other contrivance by which such pistols are fired or made to cause an explosion, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by fine not less than five dollars nor more than twenty five dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not less than three days nor more than thirty days, or both.Item type:Item, Item type:Item, 1884 Miss. Laws 412(1884)ch. 390, § 24, pt. 16: To regulate and prevent the storage of cotton, hay, gun powder, oil or any other combustible, explosive or inflammable [sic] material or substance; or of any material or substance offensive to public comfort or injurious to health.Item type:Item, Miss. Const. of 1890 art. III, § 12(1890)The right of every citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person or property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but the legislature may regulate or forbid carrying concealed weapons.Item type:Item, Miss. Code Ann. ch. 29, § 1026 (1892)(1892)§ 1026: "Any person who carries concealed, in whole or in part any bowie-knife, dirk-knife, butcher-knife, pistol, brass or metallic knuckles, slung-shot, sword, or other deadly weapon of like kind or description?"Item type:Item, 1896 Miss. Laws 109-10(1896)Ch. 104: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed Bowie knife, dirk, butcher knife, pistol, brass or metallic knuckles, slingshot, sword, or other deadly weapon "of like kind or description."Item type:Item, 1880 Miss. Laws 21(1880)Ch. 6, § 7: Mandated tax assessors to have prepared rolls of taxable items, including pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.Item type:Item, 1880 Miss. Rev. Code 775(1880)Ch. 77, § 2983: If any person assaults and beats another with a cowhide, whip or stick, having at the time in his possession a pistol or other deadly weapon, with intent to intimidate the person assaulted, and prevent him from defending himself, he shall on conviction be imprisoned in the penitentiary not longer than ten years.]